1. Offences recorded in the Management Information System Offences Universe are those which reached a hearing. There is no indication of the charged offence being the substantive charge at finalisation.

2. Data relates to the number of offences recorded in magistrates’ courts, in which a prosecution commenced, as recorded on the Case Management System (CMS) and associated Management Information System (MIS). The CPS does not collect data that constitutes official statistics as defined in the Statistics Act 2007.

3. These data have been drawn from the CPS’s administrative IT system, which (as with any large scale recording system) is subject to input and processing. The figures are provisional and subject to change as more information is recorded by the CPS. We are committed to improving the accuracy of the data and from mid-June 2015 introduced a new data assurance regime which may explain some unexpected variance in some future data sets.

4. The official statistics relating to crime and policing are maintained by the Home Office (HO) and the official statistics relating to sentencing, proceedings, offenders brought to justice, the courts and the judiciary are maintained by the Ministry of Justice (MOJ). March 2015 - September 2016

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